Do you support your linux distro???

Kedelfor · 01-18-2004, 12:49 PM

I am conducting a poll to see how many people either buy the software or donate to the distro they use or support it in any other way except for just using it ie. help in making it better by debugging, adding in new packages, or whatever else. Please post comments and let us know if you do or don't donat or buy the actual distro and why.

CeleronXL · 01-18-2004, 12:51 PM

Yep, I bought my SuSE 9.0 boxed. Of course, that was because the FTP install just wouldn't work....

jailbait · 01-18-2004, 12:54 PM

When I install programs that are not in the Fedora distribution I post Fedora rpms for other people to use:

http://users.rcn.com/srstites/rpm.we...edora.rpm.html

Warning: My web site complies with XHTML standards and therefore probably is not viewable in Internet Explorer.

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Kedelfor · 01-18-2004, 01:15 PM

Do be honest I haven't paid for my linux distro yet, but am planning to. I want to make sure linux is for me, and which distro to use. So far I am leaning towards slack, and very close to supporting it.

Megamieuwsel · 01-18-2004, 02:11 PM

I'm working on fixing a cartload of keymap-issues in Vector-Linux.
Very slow progress , I admit , but every little bit helps , right?
Also wrote a few howtos and do a fair bit of package-testing.

Imek · 01-18-2004, 02:28 PM

Technically, no, I don't support my distro. However, I haven't been using Linux for very long and when i eventually get round to learning everything about Linux and C programming in Linux I'll probably offer my, er, 'skills' to the Gentoo project. I also plan to buy my distro CD next time I need them, instead of burning them.

Scruff · 01-18-2004, 07:04 PM

I downloaded and used a bunch before I fell in love with Slackware. Tried Mandrake 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, Red Hat 8 (for about 20 mins, ugh), Gentoo 1.4, Knoppix 3.3 and Slackware 9 & 9.1. Once I knew Slack was my distro I immediately paid the $30 or whatever to get the cd set. Regardless of the distro I picked, I would have bought the thing at least once. I don't want these guys to stop developing as hard cause they are starving or anything, lol

2damncommon · 01-18-2004, 07:39 PM

Boxed sets I have purchased,
3 versions of Mandrake
3 versions Slackware
2 versions of Suse
1 version Red Hat
1 version Storm Linux
1 version Turbo Linux

I donated a few bucks to Debian when I got my Potato & Woody CD sets.
I think it's time to do that again.

I feel zero pangs of guilt when I download (or purchase cheap download version CDs) to try out a distro.

Nukem · 01-18-2004, 07:46 PM

I'm a 17 year old linux newbie. The reason I started using linux was to learn about C languages and the way an OS works, which MS won't allow you to see. The first thing I noticed even before I install linux, just by looking at linux websites was that OSs use kernels and swap.. lol

Ask a regular windows user and see if they know...
There's no way that I can support anything at this point, while I need someone else to support me...lol..

dishawjp · 01-18-2004, 08:19 PM

Yes,

I bought boxed versions of Red Hat while they were available. Now that it's Fedora Core... well ezlinuxcds.com got my money this time

Jim Dishaw

Scruff · 01-18-2004, 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 2damncommon
I feel zero pangs of guilt when I download (or purchase cheap download version CDs) to try out a distro.

Thats one of the great things about Linux. Being able to check things out before forking over any cash is very cool. Most people seem to buck up when they find their distro too. It's rare I see people blabbering about how the only reason they use it is because it's free as in 'beer'. Those are the people that won't stick with it anyway.

Scruff

leonscape · 01-18-2004, 10:51 PM

I don't directly, I'm coding on Debian for KDE. So I support KDE which helps the General Linux effort. Does this count?

Scruff · 01-18-2004, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by leonscape
I don't directly, I'm coding on Debian for KDE. So I support KDE which helps the General Linux effort. Does this count?

Well who am I, but I think it should count. Working on open source projects is definitely a major contribution. Without such we wouldn't have any software

I plan to get involved like that as well when my skills are sharper. I can't wait actually

Even all of us here at LQ that help out answering questions whenever we can is helping the cause! Every new user that sticks with it will help overall. The more users, the more hardware/software companies will have to take a serious look at porting their products to Linux.

ezra143 · 01-19-2004, 01:13 AM

Well, I have bought a few distro and try like hell here to help people stay with open source. thats a hell of alot more than i ever did with M$ (still to buy anything yet from them)

Dave_Van · 01-19-2004, 07:55 PM

I bought boxed sets of RedHat 5.1 and 8.0 and received a box of Mandrake 7.1 as a gift. Also bought StarOffice 5.1 back in the day.

Getting back into the game after M$ pushed me over the limit. Plan to buy a distro in 2-3 months; maybe Mandrake (I'm using the Downloaded 9.2 now), but seeing a lot of good things about SuSE and Slackware here on the boards. I think it's a good thing we have a so many good choices!